Folks, it's Joe.

Let me be fully transparent with you: I’m writing this morning to ask for donations that will power the final days of our campaign to defeat Donald Trump.

Look, I wish I didn’t have to ask for your contributions right now.

But, we’re coming up against our biggest fundraising deadline at the end of the month, and with millions of voters already receiving their absentee ballots in the mail and voting early in-person, it’s a make-or-break moment of the most important election of our lifetime.

It’s go time. We’re making every second count, and every contribution you pitch in helps us reach another undecided voter between now and when polls close on Election Night:

Look, Donald Trump and his Super PACs have made it clear they will spend whatever it takes over these final 41 days before Election Day to keep him in office.

But I know with full certainty that the most powerful tool that I have to fight back are my grassroots supporters, including you. This campaign has always been powered by grassroots supporters -- people like you, chipping into emails like this one.

So even though I don’t enjoy asking for your hard-earned dollars, please know that you are the lifeblood of this fight against Donald Trump, and you’ll be the ones who ensure Kamala and I are elected Vice President and President.

I do hope you’ll pitch in $25 or whatever you can afford before this next big deadline strikes, and we enter our last month of the campaign:

Honored to have your support,
Joe Biden